Alan Chartock

President and CEO

Dr. Alan Chartock is professor emeritus at the University at Albany. He hosts the weekly Capitol Connection series, heard on public radio stations around New York. The program for almost twelve years, highlighted interviews with Governor Mario Cuomo and now continues with conversations with state political leaders. Dr. Chartock also appears each week on The Media Project and the Roundtable and offers commentary on Morning Edition, weekdays at 7:37 am.

During his long tenure at WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, Alan Chartock has interviewed interesting people of every stripe. From Governors, Senators and top lawmakers, to newsmakers including World War II heroes and former UN weapons inspectors. Dr. Chartock has also had the chance for in-depth chats with artists, musicians, actors and directors...authors...you name it!

Dr. Alan Chartock discusses local state, mayoral, and county races across the region on Election Day, President Donald Trump's response to the mass shooting at a church in Texas, and the upcoming event with Harry Belafonte this weekend.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses the mass shooting in Texas, President Trump's trip to Asia, elections tomorrow in New York, ballot questions, and the upcoming event with Harry Belafonte this weekend.

(Airs 11/02/17 @ 1 p.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with former Republican Congressman, Williams College professor, and author Chris Gibson about his new book Rally Point: Five Tasks to Unite the Country and Revitalize the American Dream.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses the severe weather in the region, a grand jury approving charges to be filed today in the Russia investigation, a power deal falls apart in Puerto Rico, and the fight for independence in Catalonia.

In this week’s Classical Music According to Yehuda, Alan Chartock and Yehuda Hanani continue their series of conversations about quoting, sampling, borrowing in music - sharing Offenbach's Can-Can and Saint-Saëns' Le Carnaval des Animaux - Tortues.

Close Encounters with Music’s next presentation, "The Politics of Opera" with Author and Scholar Mitchell Cohen will take place on Nov 12.

YOU did it. I am truly humbled and amazed and delighted about the success of the Locked Box and the subsequent eighteen-hour fund drive. Shortly after it ended, the newspapers called me up and asked me why things went so fast. I opined that our success could be attributed to the fact that Donald Trump was so abhorred and feared by much of our audience that they needed the radio station like never before. They were happy to put their money behind what they saw as a fearless institution.

Dr. Alan Chartock discusses President Donald Trump's comments to the press yesterday, the dipolmatic options for North Korea, Representative Chris Gibson, the possibility of Joe Biden running for President, and pressure on New York as a result of the Republican proposed tax plan.